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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is so ridiculous on any number of levels, but as someone who teaches the course let me zero in on the AP World History of it all.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Adjusting my APUSH slides as new, critical information comes in.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It turns out that contrary to popular belief, rich men in America are able to face consequences, at least as long as they happen to also own the Los Angeles Clippers.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Where we are heading as an education system is a deeply two track system- endless drill and kill on canned prewritten digital curricula delivered by prison guards for the majority of kids, and an elite set of academies open only for the wealthy where they do classical conservative education.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In this vein, I’ve appreciated the coverage of AISD by the Austin Current, the relatively new local non-profit branch of the Texas Trbune.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Great reporting by the observer. Many of the most pernicious things in education stem from using data indicators as an end to themselves, rather than a means to serve students. It cannot be clearer that for the people running HISD, the students are nothing more than numbers on a spreadsheet.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Crassus: Well, well, well, not so easy to run a Persian campaign that doesn’t suck shit, huh?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I am - with great, world historical reluctance - officially handing it to Harry Kane

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Really great piece with a lot to say for high school educators. The conclusion: “to leave people with ways of thinking about the past that can actually hold up in the world” is something we should think about in our approaches in the classroom.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Some of you are not playing in HoopIQ mode and it shows. I want you to know that I think less of you for it, and even if no one else says anything, they all agree.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I guess the Bulls, looking for the exit door on a player they don’t care about who might be having a serious mental health break, did him the favor of specifically cutting him in a way that could give him a future career on the Daily Wire.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Look this is a dumb thing to say but honestly I don’t know why Kevin ever dribbles or passes. Him shooting a catch and shoot three over someone is one of the most efficient shots the rockets ever take.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I have the flu and it sucks. I can’t really look at screens for too long so I’ve decided to relisten to all 100+ episodes of Mike Duncan talking about the Russian Revolution until the Revolution ends or I feel better. Somehow I must believe that Pavel Axelrod will fix me.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

There has never and will never be a permanent political victory for any party or ideology. Neither authoritarianism nor egalitarianism will prevail in the end, because the end stubbornly does not come.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Tenting my fingers halfway through listening to “Cruisin” by Coolio for the first time: “Hmmmm, yes. Interesting adaptation choices so far.”

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The Campaign Trail will pay for its crimes.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Carefully considering how I’m going to broach the subject of Kevin Durant’s dms in my AP world history classes tomorrow after the long weekend.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The specific phenomenon of one team having a defensive line the other team categorically cannot handle happens weirdly frequently in the Super Bowl.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

You won’t believe this because it basically never happens but we created a warrior caste that enjoys special privileges in exchange for total loyalty to the monarch and willingness to do violence on his behalf. Anyway they’re dissatisfied because they aren’t getting the privileges they imagined.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Returning, as I do from time to time, to the passage in Black Jacobins about the Le Jeune case. It’s been a couple years since I have had the opportunity to teach this passage but hopefully I can correct that soon. A direct and damning account on the nature of elite impunity.

The Negro Code was enacted in 1685. A century after, in 1788, the Le Jeune casel laid bare the realities of slave law and slave justice in San Domingo.
Le Jeune was a coffee planter of Plaisance. Suspecting that the mortality among his Negroes was due to poison, he murdered four of them and attempted to extort confessions from two women by torture. He roasted their feet, legs and elbows, while alternately gagging them thoroughly and then withdrawing the gag. He extorted nothing and threatened all his French-speaking slaves that he would kill them without mercy if they dared to denounce him.
But Plaisance, in the thickly-populated North Province, was always a centre of the more advanced slaves, and 14 of them went to Le Cap and charged Le Jeune before the law. The judges could do no less than accept the charges.
They appointed a commission which made an investigation

at Le Jeune's plantation and confirmed the testimony of the slaves.
The commission actually found the two women barred and chained, with elbows and legs decomposing, but still alive; one of them had her neck so lacerated by an iron collar that she could not swallow. Le Jeune insisted that they were guilty of the poisonings which for so long had ravaged his plantation and gave in evidence a box taken in the women's possession. This, he said, contained poison. But when the box was opened it was found to contain nothing more than ordinary tobacco and rat dung.
Defence was impossible, and when the two women died, Le Jeune disappeared just in time to escape arrest. The case was clear. At the preliminary hearing the 14 Negroes repeated their accusations word for word. But seven white witnesses testified in favour of Le Jeune and two of his stewards formally absolved him of all guilt. The planters of Plaisance petitioned the Governor and the Intendant on behalf of Le Jeune, and demanded that each of his slaves be given 50 lashes for having denounced him. The Chamber of Agriculture of Le Cap asked that Le Jeune should merely be banished from the colony. Seventy planters from the north made a similar petition, and the Philadelphian Circle, a centre of San Domingo culture, was asked to make representations on Le Jeune's behalf. Le Jeune's father asked for a writ of intervention against one of the official investigators whose evidence he impugned. "To put it shortly," wrote the Governor and the Intendant to the Minister, "it seems that the safety of the colony depends on the acquittal of Le Jeune." It did, if the slaves were to be kept in their place. The judges, after a thousand delays, returned a negative verdict, the charges were declared null and void and the case dismissed. The public prosecutor demanded an appeal before the Superior Council of Port-au-Prince, the official capital of the island. All white San Domingo was up in arms. The Intendant appointed the oldest mem…

cil once more acquitted Le Jeune. The Home Government could pass what laws it liked. White San Domingo would not tolerate any interference with the methods by which they kept their slaves in order, 18

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Steve Kerr is in the Counting Crows documentary a lot more than you’d think.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The “inability to distinguish cause and effect” as Ganz describes here is necessary for one of the essences of conservatism: the establishment of an unimpeachable innocence for themselves. As someone whose job it is to teach kids causality I think about this often!

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I don’t love how prominent gambling on future events with unpredictable outcomes (like sports) has become. But that shit is an absolute bed of roses compared to permitting gambling on future events where dozens or hundreds of people already know the outcome. It cannot exist in a fair society.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Is Steven Adams the mvp of the league?

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Some of my most meaningful moments as a teacher have been when I’ve been able to remind a young man that feeling something or enjoying something doesn’t make him less of a man.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Who will be the famous progressive activists of this era that AP US History students have to learn about in the year 2160? Will one of them be Will Stancil? That would be weird, right? Probably better for everyone if we just don’t worry about it too much.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Is Amen Thompson real? Does he bleed human blood? Has he come from the future to save us?

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This is just absurdly poorly evidenced. The basis of his claim that education is worse now is an anecdotal complaint made by one historian in the 1940s about incoming college students which he compares to studies of all students 40 and 80 years later. Only 5% of students went to college in 1945!

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Opinion | Trump Made the Citizenship Test Harder. What if Every American Had to Take It?

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Me: Oh sure Isaac, it’s great. Frame by frame stuff, anything you could possibly need from an episode. Reminds you of the quality of animation in the early seasons. IC: And it’s called Frinkiac? Me: Yes, obviously. IC: So to you, this is appropriate for professional communication?

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Hey #NBAsky ! How well does a group of Texas high school students and teachers know the NBA? I have the cumulative choices made by an intrepid group of 70+ predictors from my campus on the end of year standings, let's take a look at what they collectively think will happen.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

West 1. OKC 2. HOU 3. DEN 4. LAC 5. MIN 6. LAL 7. GSW 8. SAS 9. MEM 10. POR 11. DAL 12. SAC 13. PHO 14. NOP 15. UTA

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

East 1. CLE 2. ORL (I believe the hype) 3. NYK 4. DET 5. MIL 6. ATL (I believe this hype less) 7. MIA 8. TOR 9. PHI 10. CHI 11. IND 12. BOS (no bigs, stealth tank) 13. CHA 14. WAS 15. BKN

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

You should be watching Fever - Aces probably.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Is the fact that assassins are so often weirdos with incoherent politics a function of being an assassin or is it just that most Americans are weirdos with incoherent politics but killing someone prominent is the only reason we pay attention to a typical American’s politics?

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I agree with this take. Periodization is a tool we use because it has explanatory power for comprehending the past. Attempting to preemptively periodize the times through which you are currently living explains nothing, and mostly seems designed to produce anxiety.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I don’t get how people believe the Kawhi thing can just blow over. Even the “innocent, I was just scammed” explanation represents an enormous problem for the league that is at least the manslaughter version of cap circumvention.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Students telling professors what they think they want to hear in essays is inherent to the whole traditional structure of education and grading. It frequently happens even when instructors explicitly and repeatedly tell kids they shouldn’t. It has nothing to do with ideological lean of teachers.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Holy shit the new Pablo Torre episode is something else. I don’t really think Kawhi can get in trouble here, at least with the league, but Ballmer and the Clippers definitely can.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I alienate people by using academic sounding language that makes them feel uncomfortable when I talk about the “enslaved people” who were victimized by the Transatlantic Slave Trade in class. I’ve gotten emails and had conferences on this with both parents and students.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

For what it’s worth, and it might be something for the various 38 year olds on this website, the horror of slavery’s sexual violence and the severing of families is much more likely to be taught in an AP US history class today than it was ten or twenty years ago.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I do not think influential pundits should use their platforms as therapy.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Where is the Democratic Lu Bu?

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